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Glimmer   /glˈɪmər/   Listen
noun
Glimmer  n.  
1.
A faint, unsteady light; feeble, scattered rays of light; also, a gleam. "Gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls."
2.
Mica. See Mica.
Glimmer gowk, an owl. (Prov. Eng.)


verb
Glimmer  v. i.  (past & past part. glimmered; pres. part. glimmering)  To give feeble or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly; to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp. "The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day."
Synonyms: To gleam; to glitter. See Gleam, Flash.





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"Glimmer" Quotes from Famous Books



... to reach the garden without being observed, and in a very short time the two friends were standing close to the windows of the large room at the back of the house. There was not so much as a glimmer of light to be seen anywhere within. Very cautiously they felt their way along until they came at length to the grating through which Gurdon had made so dramatic an entrance on the night before. He took from his pocket a box of vestas, and ventured to strike one. He held it down close to the ground, ...
— The Mystery of the Four Fingers • Fred M. White
... thrusting aside the turret door and issuing upon the wide, open spaces with an assured step. The cool breeze from the west restored him to himself in a moment. The waning moon cast a pale light across the landscape, and he could see the tents on the castle island glimmer greyish white beneath him. Beyond that again was the shining confluence of the sluggish river about the isle, and the dark line of the woods of Balmaghie opposite. He had begun to meditate on the rapid changes of circumstance which had ...
— The Black Douglas • S. R. Crockett
... girl," continued Mr. McBride, diplomatically, "and a fellow like that took a shine to me I'd show a glimmer of sense. ...
— Golden Stories - A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers • Various
... cried Roque, "Don Manuel speaks like an oracle. Nor do I think myself, this hour of night the most fit to decide such important matters. Broad day-light is certainly preferable to the glimmer of the moon and stars, for business ...
— Gomez Arias - The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. • Joaquin Telesforo de Trueba y Cosio
... of the forest leaves. Gentians fringed, like eyes of blue, Glimmer out of sleety dew. Meadow-green I sadly miss: Winds through withered sedges hiss. Oh, 'tis snowing, swing me ...
— Journeys Through Bookland V2 • Charles H. Sylvester


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